# θρησκεία (thrēskeia)

Strong’s G2356. 4 New Testament occurrences.

(underlying sense: reverence or worship of the gods), worship as expressed in ritual acts, religion.

Lexicon: Dodson, public domain.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/greek/threskeia-g2356

## Occurrences

- [Acts 26:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/acts/26/5) — Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
- [Colossians 2:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/colossians/2/18) — Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up b…
- [James 1:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/james/1/26) — If any man among you seem to be religious, and bridleth not his tongue, but deceiveth his own heart, this man’s religion is vain.
- [James 1:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/james/1/27) — Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the w…